KERR: Warriors “an ensemble”; “everybody wants results right away…most teams in flux”; Curry 😱,JK🔨
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0:00 Steve Kerr pregame at Clippers on Andrew Wiggins’ finger
0:14 on if the key to winning the first game against the Clippers was more focused efforts on defense: “…defending without fouling; weakside was better. Cory Joseph is great… JK was his best game defensively… bench was huge for us.”
1:10 on if the team is better offensively getting to the FT line than last year: “…we've never really been a high free-throw-attempt team, more of a jump-shooting team...”
2:00 on what the signal is for him that they're on a rhythm and playing well: “Well, it's always about two-way basketball, can you get stops? And can you find a way to score?… So hustle plays, and then being able to play both ends...”
2:45 on how Draymond is organizing everything: “…we don't have a single championship without Draymond… our middle linebacker and talking to everybody… our leading assists guy for many years…”
3:39 on where he is with the Draymond-Looney combo and how playable it is: “…only way it really works is if our guards are playing well, offensively… perimeter scoring. And that really enhances all the screen-setting and ball-handling that Draymond and Loon take care of. So it really is an ensemble. And if all five guys aren't in sync, then we have to go away from it…”
4:49 on the early sub the other night to get Saric, get a spacer out there: “I think every matchup’s a little different… the way the Clippers were playing us, it felt like we needed to get spacing right away with Dario… have to be flexible.”
5:22 on Tyronn Lue integrating high-level personalities: “…his tone in film sessions, his ability to demand effort, but also to be able to connect with the guys through humor and just really good communication...”
6:37 on Lue mentioning to Rachel Nichols a picture of Lue and Kerr playing against each other and Lue coming out the winner: “…he played for like 15 different teams. So it could have been there were probably lots of matchups. Of course, I played for 14.”
6:57 on what he has seen in Moses Moody’s growth: “I think we're seeing a typical third-year jump for a young player… reminds me of Looney a lot. He's unbelievably professional; every day he’s got the same temperament...”
7:58 on Russell Westbrook coming off the bench, given he’s seen guys come off the bench on his team: “It's hard for me to ever comment on other teams’ inner workings…”
8:37 on how he has seen the sacrifice element play out with his teams: “I think every team has to have someone set a tone for us. Eight years ago, it was Andre Iguodala...eight months later he’s Finals MVP…”
9:27 on managing the expectations when having a lot of top-tier talent and the expectation of championships, with such a results-driven league, and that things take time, and there's a process to a lot of these things: “That’s kind of the nature of the game today. I think when I entered the league in 1988, the salary cap was $8 million, and I remember Tom Chambers signed a free-agent contract for 2 million a year and everybody was just blown away, like, ‘Oh my God, he's making $2 million a year, that was a quarter of the cap.’ But franchises were worth $20 million, $30 million at that time. It's a completely different era, it's a billion-dollar industry, everybody wants results right away, you see it across the league, everybody's gone for it. Everybody who has a reasonable shot at winning a title is gone for selling all their assets… most teams are in flux all the time. It's a really tough business.”
11:15 on if he remembers what the minimum was: “I do because I made it. $75,000. I thought I was rich, too...”
11:30 on Rachel Nichols joking that he took a pay cut from Arizona: “What's that? Oh, wow. Wow. You obviously didn't know Lute Olson very well.”
11:40 on if NIL would’ve benefited him at Arizona: “…I think I paid them to take me.”
11:54 on how tough it is to figure out when to play the younger guys: “…difficult choices because I think we're very deep. I'm actually excited about playing guys when they get an opportunity … what we have to determine this year as a coaching staff is some clarity in our roster. And we won a championship, it's only a year-and-a-half ago… we think we can get that group functioning at a really high level… At some point in the season, you have to make that judgment as a coach, if you're going to make any changes, but I believe in our guys…”
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